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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
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- It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
- The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
- Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
- Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment
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Tag Archives: Paul Krugman
Great Questions from Paul Krugman
Why have profits been so strong in a weak economy? Why, with profits so high, don’t businesses find reason to invest more (equipment investment is actually fairly strong, but construction remains weak). (For the seriously wonkish, why do average and marginal … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporations, Equity Markets, Investment, Paul Krugman, Profits
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Inflation & Economic Slack
From Paul Krugman
Writing Economic Models like Paul Krugman
From the archives: [Krugman] uses theoretical modeling and observation of the real world to discipline and reinforce each other. In the introduction to Currency and Crises [10] , his second collection of articles, he includes a “personal manifesto” of his approach: “[T]he … Continue reading
Debt to GDP & Future Economic Growth
There has been a lot of discussion today on Reinhart and Rogoff’s work on Debt to GDP & future economic growth (see Mike Konczal, Krugman, CEPR, Brad Plumer, and the original critique from Herden, Ash, Pollin), so I wanted to highlight some … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Brad Plumer, CEPR, debt, Government Spending, Laura Tyson, Mike Konczol, Paul Krugman, Reinhart and Rogoff
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Links: Deficits, Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy, Finance, & Moneyball for Judges
Moneyball for Judges by Cass Sunstein Dylan Matthews on Deficits (and Krugman follow up) Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: Further Thoughts from Brad Delong Solow on American Finance (or Mark Thoma’s summary)
Krugman on UST Debt, Fed Purchases, & Interest Rates
Paul Krugman has a nice post challenging the sometimes accepted wisdom that the fed “gobbling up” massive amounts of UST is the primary reason for low rates. He makes three points: “As Bernanke stressed, long-term interest rates have moved very … Continue reading
Krugman & Bernanke on Capital Flows
Here’s Krugman’s op-ed on capital flows today: But the truth, hard as it may be for ideologues to accept, is that unrestricted movement of capital is looking more and more like a failed experiment. And here is Bernanke on capital … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Capital Flows, Economic Policy, Paul Krugman
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If Austerity is Working, What Does Failure Look Like?
From Paul Krugman
Corporate Profits as a Share of Output
From Paul Krugman
